Between Terror and Freedom

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The essays in this fine collection address an urgent need - that we begin to overcome the gap that has grown between the disciplinary studies of the idea of modernity and the experience of modernity itself. Dolan and Goi have developed a coherent and powerful set of themes out of any school, affording us new insight into the multiple meanings of modernity. -- Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College, author of A Politics of the Ordinary Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, andpolitical theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout.... -- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame Between Terror and Freedom is a remarkably diverse set of thematically linked essays, all of which strive to make sense of the dangers and possibilities of politics in the late modern age. The resources of philosophy, literary criticism, legal, and political theory are deployed by the authors with an attentiveness to text and context and a lightness of touch rarely encountered in a work of this kind. Eminently readable and thought-provoking throughout. -- Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame